Psychology Quotes by Peter Kreeft

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

— Peter Kreeft

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

— Peter Kreeft

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

— Peter Kreeft

We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

— Peter Kreeft

Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It…

— Peter Kreeft

“The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because…

— Peter Kreeft

“We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not…

— Peter Kreeft

There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)…

— Peter Kreeft

“Three reasons God commands us to pray correlate to our three deepest needs, the fundamental needs of the three powers of our…

— Peter Kreeft

“From the premise that Christianity is true it follows that the far-off glimpse of joy produced by fantasy is a glimpse of…

— Peter Kreeft

“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The…

— Peter Kreeft

Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs…

— Peter Kreeft